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Sir Rupert, the Fearless choose

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[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I iii: I want to bring him before the beak.
at beak, n.1
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I iii: Come, come, my friends, pray cease this row and bobbery.
at bobbery, n.
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I iii: Oh! gemini!
at gemini!, excl.
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I v: Botheration! Lurlaine be hanged.
at hang, v.1
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I v: Nor send us all straight to Old Harry.
at Old Harry, n.
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I iv: She is too good by half – / I’m hot as Etna.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I iii: Let’s seal the bargain with a kiss [she slaps his face] I facks / I could dispense through with your sealing whacks.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I iii: Their war cry is ‘Revenge and spiflication!’.
at spiflication, n.
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I v: Now then, you who’ve spliced the main brace, / Pe’haps will splice us two.
at splice, v.
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I v: Think of Lurlaine, sir, while you’re getting spoony.
at spoony, adj.
[UK] Talfourd & Seymour Sir Rupert, the Fearless I i: Suppose you cease this spouting to propose / Some measure which may measure us for clothes / No tailor ’ll tick.
at tick, v.1
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